The author correctly states that x86 has "lower bits at the beginning, bigger bits on the end", but, as you said, that's the definition of little-endian.
Apparently, I even made up an explanation for why "big-endian == start with the least significant bit" totally makes sense... couldn't convince the Universe this way either though.
Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of changes made to his books to update them for more modern audiences? His books were the first I heard of being updated for that reason and I'd like to see what was done, but I can only find news articles listing some changes.
The 10% includes food and energy items, but also things that people won't be spending money on when the price of food an energy goes up so it underestimates the impact of an increase in the price of food and energy.
I'm not in the EU, but this is what our family has done. Our food bill alone has gone from around 30% of our takehome pay to around 40%, and we just don't have the income to absorb that increase.
So the useless crap, the things that make inflation look not so bad, gets cut out.
I'm in the US and this is what I hear from the people I know.
Most of those people don't carefully track their expenses so they just know that they have less left over after paying for the necessities. A couple of them do track expenses carefully and when I was talking to them a few months ago they said that their personal inflation rates were at least 20% over the previous 12 months. I just checked heating fuel costs and they're up 36% from last year, which is less than I expected given what other people have said about their costs but it's still significant. It's definitely going to be a hard winter for a lot of people I know.
This works much better on my POWER9 system. I have two CPUs in my machine with the same core count but different cache configurations according to hwloc and this showed that they really are different.
